Building Walls Quotes

• Good fences make good neighbors.

  Robert Frost

  Alaska, Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder, Mind Your Own Business

  "MendingWall" l. 25 (1914)

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• Walls don't work. ... Instead of building walls to create security, we need to build bridges.

  James G. Stavridis

  Wall, Motivation, Inspiration

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• We should be breaking down barriers, not building walls.

  Ted Cruz

  Wall, Building, Breaking Down

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• We have to Build Bridges of Peace Instead of building Walls of Wars.

  Widad Akrawi

  Wall, War, Bridges

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• Building walls isn't going to work in the long run. Some people are happy with the wall in Israel, but somebody will get a weapon someday and knock it over or something. Walls aren't the answer between countries, though

  Arlo Guthrie

  Running, Country, Wall

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• I am not a theologian, nor am I a priest or a minister, but I think building walls is fundamentally contrary to what made this country what it is. We're a pluralistic society in its functions.

  Joe Biden

  Country, Wall, Thinking

  Interview with Rachel Maddow, www.msnbc.com. February 18, 2016.

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• Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.

  Joseph Fort Newton

  Life, Wall, Inspiration

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• A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be - and not building bridges - is not Christian.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Wall, Thinking

  In-flight interview from Mexico to Rome, www.catholicnewsagency.com. February 18, 2016.

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• None of the threats to the global commons will be solved by building walls.

  James G. Stavridis

  Wall, Building, Threat

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• We have to remember, when we forgive we're not doing it just for the other person, we're doing it for our own good. When we hold on to unforgiveness and we live with grudges in our hearts, all we're doing is building walls of separation.

  Joel Osteen

  Forgiveness, Wall, Heart

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• Asked about Donald Trump, [Pope] Francis said a person who thinks only about building walls and not building bridges is not Christian, a remark you might remember that Trump described as disgraceful.

  Sylvia Poggioli

  Christian, Wall, Thinking

  Source: www.npr.org

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• A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian. This is not in the Gospel.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Wall, Thinking

  Source: www.catholicnewsagency.com

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• The battle for conservation will go on endlessly. It is part of the universal battle between right and wrong.

  John Muir

  Battle, Goes On, Conservation

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• A globalized world is by now a familiar fact of life. Building walls or moats may sound appealing, but the future belongs to those who tend to their people and then boldly engage the rest of the world, near and far.

  Jon Meacham

  Wall, People, May

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• In an atmosphere of uniform density the most distant things seen through it, such as the mountains, in consequence of the great quantity of atmosphere which is between your eye and them, will appear blue. Therefore you should make the building... wall which is more distant less defined and bluer... five times as far away, make five times as blue.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Wall, Eye, Blue

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• If desire causes suffering, it may be because we do not desire wisely, or that we are inexpert at obtaining what we desire. Instead of hiding our heads in a prayer cloth and building walls against temptation, why not get better at fulfilling desire? Salvation is for the feeble, that's what I think. I don't want salvation, I want life, all of life, the miserable as well as the superb.

  Tom Robbins

  Prayer, Wall, Thinking

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.119, Bantam

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• Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.

  Vicente Fox

  Wall, Bridges, Building

  Interview with Mark C. Anderson, www.montereycountyweekly.com. Nov 21, 2007.

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• I can promise you that the pope would have only wished and prayed that Donald Trump would have been president.

  Donald Trump

  Promise, President, Pope

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• For years I was so busy building walls I did not see I was imprisoning myself behind them, and did not recognize this pattern as being addiction. My addictive thinking and behavior became the bars of my cell. Denying feeling empty inside, I constantly looked for new things to acquire, people to be around, substances to take, and new goals to achieve in order to feel better about myself. Over the last four decades I have focused on healing my addictive mind and helping others do the same.

  Lee L Jampolsky

  Wall, Healing, Feel Better

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• The control is shifting because of the democratisation of the internet. My industry is very good at building walls to stop people getting in.

  Kevin Spacey

  Wall, People, Shifting

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• We are not going to build a pressure in Mexico. We're not building walls to retain our people.

  Vicente Fox

  Wall, People, Mexico

  "Former Mexican President Vicente Fox Debates Immigration Issue With Bill". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. October 9, 2007.

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• I could have made money this way, and perhaps amused myself writing code. But I knew that at the end of my career, I would look back on years of building walls to divide people, and feel I had spent my life making the world a worse place.

  Richard Stallman

  Wall, Writing, Years

  Richard Stallman (2002). “Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman”, p.14, Lulu.com

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